Welcome to Sound Internet's  Tech Talk, July 11, 2001, Spam ·         Welcome and Introductions ·         Tech Talk: What, When and Why ·         SPAM o        What is it? o        How did they get my e-mail address? o        Options: Ignore, Complain, Filter ·         Filtering o        What does spam look like? o        Why can’t Sound Internet filter for me? o        How can Sound Internet help me filter? o        What tools are out there? o        Outlook/Outlook Express/Eudora Filters o        Procmail o        Sendmail access lists and the limitations ·         Demos ·         Filtering with Outlook ·         Built-in MS criteria that Outlook uses to determine Junk or Adult E-mail ·         Filtering with Outlook Express ·         What is Procmail o        Why Procmail is better o        Filtering with Procmail & Basic Recipe ·         Break ·         Testing Recipes and Advanced Procmail Filtering                                                                          Basic Procmail recipe                                                                                              1.       Login to the shell                                                 2.       how to make .procmailrc   pico ~/.procmailrc 3.        Normally you’d need to edit your .forward file, but at sound internet we have procmail built into the mail server so you only need to create the .procmailrc file in your home directory.   #Preliminaries SHELL=/bin/sh               #Use the Bourne shell (check your path!) MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail/username #First check what your mail directory is! LOGFILE=${HOME}/procmail.log LOG="--- Logging ${LOGFILE} for ${LOGNAME}, " #Whatever recipes you'll use #The order of the recipes is significant :0 * ^From: scam@cyberspam\.com /dev/null # Accept all the rest to your default mailbox :0: ${DEFAULT}   For more information contact Chris Luhman